1806

Thursday, March 6, 1806

Uriah Palmer was elected deacon of the Baptist church at Keeseville.

Wednesday, March 26, 1806

In Burlington, whither he had removed about 1800, died Col. Ebenezer Allen, the first settler of South Hero, after the Grant of the "Two Heroes" in 1779.  Col. Allen was a third cousin of Gen. Ethan Allen, an early settler in the New Hampshire grants 

Wednesday, May 28, 1806

John Ranson who, with his sons for many years kept hotel near the first steamboat landing at Cumberlandhead, died.  It was at his warf "Ransom's Landing" that the early boats, the Vermont and Phoenix stopped; here also, John Jacob Aster on his way to buy furs in Canada, was a guest once an entire week.

Friday, July 6, 1806

The birthday of Anson H. Allen of Palatine N.Y. He was known as "The Old Settler" and located in Essex country where he became a printer and publisher.  He published in turn the Keeseville Herald, the Essex County Times at Westport and, at Keeseville he started The Old Settler which gave him his sobriquet.  In 1840, while traveling through the wilds of Keene, engaged in taking the census, he had encountered a she bear with her cubs.  After a hard fight, often recounted by him, he succeeded in killing the mother, which event was later recorded by a local poet in a humorous poem ending:

Let old men talk of courage bold,
Of battles fought in days of old,
Ten times as bad, but none I ween,
Can match a bear fight up in Keene.